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NOVATEK reports operating data for ten months 2008

Moscow, 27 November 2008. OAO NOVATEK (or the «Company») today reported hydrocarbon production data for the month of October 2008 and the ten months ended 31 October 2008.

Gross production for October 2008 totalled 2.76 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 264 thousand tons of liquids (gas condensate and crude oil). Natural gas production increased by 11.5%, and gross liquids production increased by 22.5%, as compared with the corresponding gross production in October 2007.

In the first ten months of 2008, gross production for NOVATEK totalled 25.59 billion cubic meters of natural gas and 2.14 million tons of liquids. Natural gas production increased by 9.4%, whereas gross liquids production increased by 4.1% as compared with the corresponding gross production in the first ten months of 2007.

With the successful launches of the second phase development at the Yurkharovskoye field in September 2008 and the second phase expansion of the Purovsky processing plant in November 2008, the Company completed the majority of the infrastructure related activities required to increase production capacity and continue field development. The Company’s current production capacity is more than 100 million cubic meters of natural gas per day.

«We update our future development plans with accordance to the gas demand outlook," stated Leonid v. Mikhelson, CEO NOVATEK. «As a result of the signs of a slowdown in expected consumption of natural gas primarily due to unseasonably warm fall weather, management is revising its full year natural gas production growth guidance to 8.5% and maintains its 10% liquids production growth guidance for 2008».

According to NOVATEK’s CFO, Mark Gyetvay, «The Company has not been negatively impacted by non-payments for deliveries of natural gas and continues to work closely with its customer base and OAO Gazprom to ensure adequate supplies of natural gas are available on the Russian domestic market».

NOVATEK’s hydrocarbon production

Oct2007	Oct2008	Chg%	Gross production	10M2007	10M2008	YoY%
2.48	2.76	11.5%	Natural gas, bcm	23.38	25.59	9.4%
215	264	22.5%	Liquids, mt	2,058	2,142	4.1%

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PAO NOVATEK is the largest independent natural gas producer in Russia, and in 2017, entered the global LNG market by successfully launching the Yamal LNG project. Founded in 1994, the Company is engaged in the exploration, production, processing and marketing of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons. Upstream activities of the Company’s subsidiaries and joint ventures are concentrated mainly in the prolific Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region, which is the world’s largest natural gas producing area and accounts for approximately 80% of Russia’s natural gas production and approximately 15% of the world’s gas production. NOVATEK is a public joint stock company established under the laws of the Russian Federation.